Saint-Nazaire OWF Construction Begins

The first steel sheet of the electrical substation for the
offshore wind farm (OWF) of Saint-Nazaire (west of France) was
cut at Chantiers de l'Atlantique shipyard in Saint-Nazaire.

Ordered in August 2019 by Parc du Banc de Guérande, held jointly
by EDF Renouvelables and Enbridge Inc, the substation will leave
the shipyard in the summer of 2021, to be connected with the
wind farm in 2022. The substation will collect and transform the
electricity produced by wind turbines and transfer it to the
shore network, while ensuring remote control of the wind farm.

The same consortium, led by Atlantique Offshore Energy (the
business unit dedicated to Marine Energies from Chantiers de
l'Atlantique) with its partners GE Renewable Energy's Grid
Solutions business and SDI (DEME Offshore) has been selected by
Eoliennes Offshore des Hautes Falaises et Eoliennes Offshore du
Calvados, held by EDF Renouvelables, Enbridge Inc and wpd
offshore, to design, manufacture and install the electrical
substations for the Fécamp and Courseulles-sur-Mer wind farms
(Normandie, France).

The delivery of the Fécamp and of Courseulles-sur-Mer
substations, with a total capacity of around 500 MW each, should
take place respectively at the end of 2022 and in 2023.

Over the period of execution of these three projects, more than
400 people (Chantiers de l'Atlantique and contractors) will be
employed in the Saint-Nazaire area.

Once in operation, the three substations will cover the
equivalent of the domestic electricity consumption of nearly two
million people in France.

"This choice allows to strengthen the French industrial sector
of offshore wind power, which is facing a particularly
competitive market dynamic," said Frédéric Grizaud, Director of
Atlantique Offshore Energy.

"After our first successes in Europe, we are proud to consolidate
our industrial know-how on these three projects. This strategy
gives us the needed visibility to address in parallel other
projects being developed in France and worldwide," he added.